Scott Von Doviak

TelevisionJanuary 1, 1970 Hot on the heels of NBC's live televised remake of Fail-Safe comes this two part Showtime adaptation of Nevil Shute's post-apocalyptic classic On the Beach. (Let's hope this mini-boom in Cold War-era retreads ends before we get Robin Williams ...

TelevisionJanuary 1, 1970 It's been nearly a year since Big Pussy went to sleep with the fishes, an eternity for fans of The Sopranos forced to make do with perpetual reruns and the recent DVD release of the show's first season while ...

TelevisionJanuary 1, 1970 When Goodfellas debuted on movie screens in the fall of 1990, it felt like one last glorious burst for the played-out gangster genre. This was confirmed a few months later with the arrival of The Godfather, Part III, which ...

FilmJanuary 1, 1970 The original Blair Witch Project was more of a stunt than a movie - a very effective stunt for its many admirers, who pushed the box office take of the micro-budgeted indie into the stratosphere. By now, everyone knows ...

FilmJanuary 1, 1970 "There are movies that define every decade," according to the posters for the debut film from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Michael Cristofer, Body Shots. To its credit, the poster does not go on to claim that this is one of ...

FilmJanuary 1, 1970 What could be funnier than Nick Nolte in a dress? If you answered "Nothing," then run, don't walk, to the nearest theater showing Alan Rudolph's new film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s 1973 novel Breakfast of Champions. But be ...

FilmJanuary 1, 1970 If and when we daydream about being miraculously endowed with super-powers, how many of us fantasize about using our new abilities to help our fellow man? The typical Marvel comics superhero receives his power through some terrible accident (usually ...

FilmJanuary 1, 1970 African Nights: True Stories from the author of I Dreamed of Africa (2000), Kuki Gallmann From the opening swells of Maurice Jarre's lush orchestration to the sweeping pictorial grandeur of the final shot, I Dreamed of Africa ...

FilmJanuary 1, 1970 Proving once again that where there's smoke, there's fire, more than a few people are feeling the burn from Michael Mann's new ripped-from-the-headlines docudrama, The Insider. Based on "The Man Who Knew Too Much," a Vanity Fair article by ...

FilmJanuary 1, 1970 If mechanical shark effects and John Williams' relentless theme music were all it had going for it, Jaws still might have become the highest grossing movie in history at the time of its release. And it likely would still ...